Paradigms

Olivia Frances is a pop/folk artist in her early 20’s. She has just released her 3rd album! It’s called Orchid and you will love it. Olivia is a bit of a prodigy. She started writing songs at an early age and recorded her first record while still in High School. The music is upbeat, relevant, and personal. Olivia and Baruch discuss how Olivia came to the music, her inspirations, what i...

Benji & Rita are a performing duo; a married couple from different countries (Brazil and USA) who met and made music together before they started dating. They are both songwriters. They both play guitar and sing. They’re traveling around the world playing music! Benji has been a guest on Paradigms before. Check out those episodes and learn about how he fell in love with Brazilian music:...

June 28, 1969, New York City, the Stonewall Inn was the scene of what is known as The Stonewall Uprising . Considered a watershed event for Gay Liberation, and for LGBTQ rights, these events are commemorated and celebrated in cities and countrysides around the world, every June, in Pride marches and activities. While some question why LGBTQ people celebrate Pride, one answer is this; until the pla...

Bernard O’neill is one of those people who is inspired by humanity’s beauty and ability to be big hearted and open minded. He’s also a brilliant musician who goes places and learns and shares music and then brings that to the rest of us. Bernard was on Paradigms in 2017 with Nick Page after New World Records released the Ipiros Remixes from the 2010 Road to Damascus project. Bern...

“5 Soldiers” is a very powerful dance piece that examines the role of the soldier’s body as a tool of war, from strength, resilience, and vulnerability, to wounding and destruction, and all that lies between. Rosie Kay, who created this very significant work shares her story and inspiration with Baruch. Rosie discusses what this artistic creation means to her, and how it has been...

In this second part of a 2 part series we will meet filmmaker Katherin Hervey whose current project The Prison Within follows the restorative justice process, sharing perspectives of incarcerated people who have caused harm and survivors of harm. The film comes out in late 2019. Martina Kartman and Devitta Briscoe work at the Public Defenders Office and run restorative justice based healing circle...

The United States imprisons more people than any other country, both in number and per capita. Something isn’t working, our legal system is not a justice system. In this first part of a 2 part series we will meet Karena Montag , a psychotherapist, and Troy Williams , who works with prisoners in San Quentin and is a formerly incarcerated person. Karena talks about what Restorative Justice is...

Basia hit the world stage in the early 1980’s with the band Matt Bianco and then as a solo performer, with her potent brand of jazzy music inspired by latin music, Motown, the blues, and so much more. Celebrated for her vocal range and stylings, Basia is also a phenomenal songwriter and composer. Together with musical partner Danny White, Basia has released a number of albums, all received w...

Ayana Young is one of the founders of the For the Wild Collective . Ayana talks about rewilding and unlearning as part of living sustainably. By spending less time with electronics and the trappings of modern life, and by spending more time with living things like plants and animals, especially outside, you set in motion an organic process of rewilding.  You can do it too! Eljuri has released a ne...

Colton Davis , founder of Chicago Food Rescue , tells about this bike powered organization that picks up and delivers food that would otherwise go to waste; preventing waste and feeding hungry people with fresh food! Rehan Choudry tells us about Emerge , a conference and musical gathering happening in Las Vegas at the end of May, addressing major issues of our time: Protest, Self Care, Bravery, an...

“ My story starts long ago and far away, in a family of Irish immigrants on a voyage to the unknown, leaving everything and everyone behind in search of better livelihood. My life-long musical voyage to the unknown is fueled and inspired by that of my parents, who have dreamed of seeing the world, hearing its song, and making it their own. It’s their courage and passion that empowers me to take th...

Petite Celine is a Franco-American singer/songwriter. Her new album is Man Made Fire . The songs vary in style, as Celine is intent upon bringing cross cultural and creatively diverse material to the world. Celine and Baruch had a conversation about the music, the new record, and also about Celine’s experience as a bi-cultural person in a world that seems to be increasingly frightened of any...

John Westmoreland is a native of North Carolina. He’s been playing music since he was a kid, inspired by the likes of Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits. John has a new album called Cast Fire which is remarkable in it’s depth and what it calls forth from listeners. John plays live shows, and he plays live for people who are dealing with Alzheimers and dementia, at local memory care homes. He&...

Yoeke Nagel is a journalist and author from The Netherlands. In this book Yoeke tells the story, quilted together over decades of research, of her Grandmother Jeanne van Emden, a member of the Dutch Resistance during WWII. This is the story of Yoeke’s family who were persecuted by Nazis; of a courageous woman, and her children, who lived, and about some who didn’t come back from the ca...

Phil Hewitt is a journalist and a marathon runner. In 2016 Phil was stabbed and nearly died. Phil’s new book Outrunning the Demons is a collection of vignettes, accounts of people who have faced a trauma of one sort or another ranging from illness to political oppression to sexual assault, and more, who have found healing through running. Each chapter is one person’s story. The writing...

Philip Be’er tells an interesting story of how his experiences of trauma led him to psychology and to work with trauma recovery. Philip has developed his own methods for discovering, mapping, and recovering from trauma. Baruch and Philip discuss ways people can acknowledge and deal with old and ongoing trauma or distress, as well as acknowledging the psychological damage we see in some polit...

Poranguî is a person whose life and work are informed by growing up tri-cultural . His roots are in Brazil, Mexico and the US and he’s just released a new recording of vibrant “journeying” music Poranguî Live . There is also a counterpart album of the same music with inspired guided imagery and poetry and trance dance guidance by Ashley Klein . “As a live musician, world so...

Frances Moore Lappé is a visionary, a writer, a world changer. Her first book Diet For A Small Planet changed the way many Americans eat and view their relationship with food. Frankie has just written her 19th book, along with co-writer Adam Eichen , Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want . Baruch and Frankie discuss Frankie’s journey from anti-pove...

T O B I A H   is a singer-songwriter from the UK. Her new record Are We Angels is a remarkable collection of original songs. Tobiah’s connection with animals, and people, and her compassion, shine through the music. You can feel it when you listen. The new album brings together musicians Caroline Lavelle , Colette O’Leary , Rowan Piggott , Simon Callow, Kenneth Hope , offering 9 tracks...

Del Shores is a writer, producer and performer. He is the creator of numerous stage plays as well as Sordid Lives: The Series and two feature films Sordid Lives and A Very Sordid Wedding which are brilliant, funny, compassionate, and very relevant. Del has a new one-man show Six Characters In Search Of A Play which is directed by Emerson Collins . He brings to life six one-of-a-kind characters he...

Metanioa of Vermont is the creation of Lisa and Mark Kutolowski, combining the ruggedness of living in Vermont and the relationship with nature that fosters, with a Christian spiritual/religious paradigm. Given the resistance to loving/caring for nature that is often represented in contemporary Christianity, this is a welcome and needed departure from the dominant dogma. Metanioa offers retreats a...

Cha Wa is a New Orleans band steeped in the traditions of Mardi Gras. J’Wan Boudreaux is a Mardi Gras Indian in the tradition of his forefathers. Along with Joe Gelini, Joe Maize, Thaddeus “Peanut” Ramsey, Ari Teitel and Clifton “Spug” Smith, they are Cha Wa. Their new  Grammy nominated  album is Spyboy . J’Wan and Joe talked with Baruch about Cha Wa’s for...

Jim Roberts is a percussionist, producer, artist and educator who resides in Chapel Hill, NC, USA. He’s been banging on things since he was a baby beating on pots and pans. Now he’s bringing different kinds of percussion music together with various genres of music to create new music. In 2018 Jim released an album called The Tao of Time which is a journey, a story, a sonic adventure. T...

Norman Blain is a musician and a recording engineer. You’ve probably never heard of him, but you may have heard his work! He’s worked with many well known artists. Normans records include Can You Remember  and Whirlwind by Norman Blain & The Authentiks, and his solo record The Way Back Home . Baruch and Norman discuss music, life, and inspiration, the choice Norman made regarding f...

Kristina Stykos is a musician, songwriter, performer, and also a talented recording engineer and proprietor of Pepperbox Studio in Chelsea, Vermont. Her new record is River of Light and this is a most compelling collection of songs. Kristina’s passion for authentic expression informs this music, which speaks volumes of the human experience especially in relationship with nature and each othe...